IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who blew the lid off the wheat seeds scam in Haryana, has raised an accusing finger at the reported filing of a closure report by the CBI into the case.
In a six-page letter to the CBI Director, Khemka termed the reported closure of the inquiry as “patently wrong, improper and unfair”.
“Criminal jurisprudence demands that each and every aspect of the case required to be dealt with by the Investigating Officer (IO) must be properly inquired into. I reserve the right to expose the grave nexus between the IO and the suspects in case the closure report along with the documents relied upon by the IO is supplied to me later,” Khemka, posted as Secretary, Archaeology and Museums, said in the letter.
Khemka urged the CBI Director “the present inquiry along with the unprofessional conduct of the IO may be investigated into by a competent officer with unimpeachable integrity after registering a regular case in the complaint at the earliest”.
In 2013, the Chandigarh unit of the CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) on the basis of a written complaint by Khemka, then Managing Director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC).
He had alleged the National Co-operative Consumer Federation (NCCF), Chandigarh, and National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation (NAFED), Ludhiana, had caused loss to the state exchequer by supplying seeds at higher rates to the HSDC.
The CBI reportedly filed a closure report, claiming the inquiry conducted brought out allegations of buying certified wheat seeds at exorbitant rates and thereby having caused loss to the exchequer did not stand substantiated. The CBI also reportedly could not detect any fraud in the matter during the PE.
Khemka, in the letter, alleged the reported closure report seemed to be based on the defence of suspects, including those in the Agriculture Department, HSDC, NAFED, NCCF and private suppliers, deliberately ignoring his complaint and overlooking several incriminating evidence available on record which clearly established the guilt of the suspects acting in criminal collusion causing wrongful losses to the state exchequer.
“The reported closure report completely contradicts the observations/recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture and the audit findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in the same matter,” Khemka alleged.
He added in spite of written request, a copy of the inquiry report had not been supplied to him.
In a six-page letter to the CBI Director, Khemka termed the reported closure of the inquiry as “patently wrong, improper and unfair”.
“Criminal jurisprudence demands that each and every aspect of the case required to be dealt with by the Investigating Officer (IO) must be properly inquired into. I reserve the right to expose the grave nexus between the IO and the suspects in case the closure report along with the documents relied upon by the IO is supplied to me later,” Khemka, posted as Secretary, Archaeology and Museums, said in the letter.
Khemka urged the CBI Director “the present inquiry along with the unprofessional conduct of the IO may be investigated into by a competent officer with unimpeachable integrity after registering a regular case in the complaint at the earliest”.
In 2013, the Chandigarh unit of the CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) on the basis of a written complaint by Khemka, then Managing Director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC).
He had alleged the National Co-operative Consumer Federation (NCCF), Chandigarh, and National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation (NAFED), Ludhiana, had caused loss to the state exchequer by supplying seeds at higher rates to the HSDC.
The CBI reportedly filed a closure report, claiming the inquiry conducted brought out allegations of buying certified wheat seeds at exorbitant rates and thereby having caused loss to the exchequer did not stand substantiated. The CBI also reportedly could not detect any fraud in the matter during the PE.
Khemka, in the letter, alleged the reported closure report seemed to be based on the defence of suspects, including those in the Agriculture Department, HSDC, NAFED, NCCF and private suppliers, deliberately ignoring his complaint and overlooking several incriminating evidence available on record which clearly established the guilt of the suspects acting in criminal collusion causing wrongful losses to the state exchequer.
“The reported closure report completely contradicts the observations/recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture and the audit findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in the same matter,” Khemka alleged.
He added in spite of written request, a copy of the inquiry report had not been supplied to him.
